Building the Ravenel Bridge


After all the photos I took, I've tried to arrange them in some order based on various topics I found interesting.

And a reminder from T.S. Eliot (East Coker from the Four Quartets) 

Old men ought to be explorers
Here and there does not matter
We must be still and still moving
Into another intensity
For a further union, a deeper communion
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July 17, 2005: Another Aerial Adventure

This time, with Vince Streano as my teacher, we made another pass above and around the bridge - this time with traffic flowing between Charleston and Mt. Pleasant.

My results need a bit of improvement - but they are getting better. The real problem that I must master is converting proprietary Nikon NEF format to a standard format that I can manipulate - within the open source frame of reference (GNU-Linux). I've been using dcraw with some success - but I need a bit more work.

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